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Did you just wake up this morning to find that your Facebook looks quite a bit different? Facebook totally just made a few dramatic changes to the way their news-feed works and I wanted to share it with you to get you up to date.

Introducing The Ticker

First of all, there are no more beloved “Top News” and “Most Recent” options for your news-feed. The news feed has gotten split up into two sections: “Recent Stories” and “Ticker.”

The ticker includes the raw data of any recent activity that is continuously updated and is essentially the replacement for the “Most Recent” news stream. When you hover over an activity in the ticker, it pops up in detail so you could comment on it. Please note that the friends and apps you’ve “hidden,” will still be hidden in the Ticker. I have about 30 friends and 10 apps hidden so that I don’t see their status updates and improve my Facebook experience.

Facebook has replaced the "Top News" and "Most Recent" options with "Recent Stories" and the "Ticker," respectively.

“This is a Highlight”

Another change is that you can now Highlight posts. What this actually does in my limited experience of it is that your highlighted items will appear near the top of your “Recent Stories” the next time you visit, sort of like subscribing to that post without having to like or comment on the post.

Some posts will be automatically highlighted based on Facebook’s best guess. If you do not want to see them to appear in your newsfeed, simply remove the “This is a Highlight” check mark.

Now you can highlight a post and this will bring it up to the top of your news feed.

Fixed Header and Ticker position

The blue header bar will always be present at the top now which is somewhat convenient considering I typically scroll all the way up to check my notifications. The Ticker always follow you as you scroll down and stays present on your page. I also noticed that if my window is big enough, the ticker integrates vertically with the chat program and again, stays fixed and ever present.

I love the fact that we’ve come to a point in our society that we can instantly stream movies or shows right on our TV’s or computers. At my home, I have a TV but I purposely don’t have any TV channels thanks to the power of the Internet. I just have a PS3 that I use to play DVD’s or stream programs from Netflix.

For some strange reason, they have purposely avoided a way to sort anything by rating, so oftentimes I have to mindlessly browse through lots of horrible films. The running joke is that if there’s anythings that’s ever been filmed that’s mediocre (or worse), then it’s probably available on Netflix’s streamable selection.

I started to compile a list of movies that are great but very quickly I realized it was never going to be comprehensive (or unbiased). I started looking for other resources and discovered this awesome website called InstantWatcher.com

InstantWatcher.com helps your find good streaming titles from Netflix without the junk!

InstantWatcher.com seems a lot more streamlined and easier to use to find good titles than going through Netflix. You could search by rating, see the Rotten Tomatoes percentage, and browse awesome categories such as “New York Times Critics Picks.”

Big thanks to Daniel Choi, the creator of the site, since he combined Netflix, Google and New York Times Movie Review API‘s to bring you a much more powerful website. For more information, read the 2nd half of the About page.

Ever since I got my new desktop computer, I have had the pleasure of working on a 21.5″ monitor and that is a huge step up from my former laptops 14″ monitor.

I keep imagining how awesome it would be to have dual monitors because I have several friends who have them and I see how efficient it is. Well, I discovered an awesome way I can emulate dual monitors by splitting the windows in Windows 7.

The secret involves pressing the Windows Key and the Arrow Keys:

Windows Key + Left Arrow makes a window fill up the left half of the screen.

Windows Key + Right Arrow makes a window fill up the right half of the screen.

And there you have it! You can effectively split the screen into two working spaces!

I can use Photoshop while I watch Richie Hawtin streaming live from Japan! 😉

There’s a few other nifty things you can do, such as:

Windows Key + Down Arrow minimizes a maximized window, press it again to minimize it all the way.

For Firefox users, to make a tab move to a new window of its own, right click on a tab and click “Move to New Window” and then do Windows Key + left or right arrow to split.

There’s literally hundreds of other nifty shortcuts, if you are interested you could check out this website that lists them all for every Windows OS. Until I have the money (and care) to buy another monitor and a video card to support it, this is a great alternative and comes in handy very often!

4. Scroll all the way down to the end of your friends list. This may take a long time if you have a lot of friends.

5. Clear your address bar and paste the above code by pressing CTRL-V. (What is the address bar? Some people aren’t sure which one is the address bar. The address bar is where it contains the address of the web-site. For example, the address bar for this web-site contains the following text: http://antranik.org/secret-code-to-invite-all-your-friends-on-fb/)

6. Important: After you paste the code, go to the front of it and type in “javascript:” (without the quotes) so it will look like this “javascript:var x=document.get……” Then press Enter.

Be patient and all your friends will even­tu­ally get check marked! That should do it!

I hope that helps! If you have any com­ments or ques­tions or if the code isn’t work­ing… let me know and I will try to update it!

Another way of selecting all users at once for Chrome users:

You may install this Chrome extension called Facebook Inviter which takes just seconds to install. After you install it, go to your facebook fan page (or event), find the link on the right side that says “Invite Friends” and the window that pops up will now have an added option, “Toggle All.”

Have you noticed that you’re seeing updates in your news-feed from the same people lately? Have you also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and you’re not hearing from anyone else?

The problem is that your friends can’t see anything you post and you can’t see anything they post either.

Why is this happening?

When Facebook redesigned the way our profiles look in December 2010, they also implemented a secret newsfeed setting that’s automatically set to show posts ONLY from people you interacted with in the past few weeks.

So in other words, for both business pages and personal profiles, unless you or your friends and fans have commented on each others posts, you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you! This is quite strange since I’ve always expected the “Most Recent” filter to just give me the raw feed, but instead, it mimics the functionality of the “Top News” which filters by interactivity as well.

Unfortunately this isn’t the first time this has happened. Facebook seems to have a knack for making changes without even letting us know, let alone asking us if we even want to opt-in or out of this feature at all.

Follow these 3 easy steps to fix this:

Step 1

On your homepage, click "Most Recent."

Step 2

Click the drop-down-arrow and then select “Edit Options…”

Step 3

Select to show posts from "All of your friends and pages" and click "Save"

You can now view all of your friends and fans updates. Unfortunately, your posts are still invisible to a lot of your friends!

The reason for this is because many of your friends are unaware of this setting and are still viewing Facebook with the default setting. Your friends will see your posts if you leave a comment, “Like” a post, or invite them to an event.

The best way to make ALL your friends aware of this issue is to invite them to an event all at once.

You can use this this event page I created specifically for inviting them. It has the same information as this blog page. Do it so that many more will become aware of this option!

Here is the secret way to invite ALL your friends at once to any Facebook event, group, page, etc.

Stay in the loop!

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